Kerouac on the Web

biographies, writing samples, research sources and other information
pertaining to Jack Kerouac

Starts with a brief biography and branches into a much larger, if
somewhat content-superficial site. Bohemian
Ink speaks with an authoritative concinnity--as if it knows something
you want to know about. It's a bit of a tease leaving you hungry for
more, which it provides through useful, if unannotated, resource links.
Perhaps a trifle self-consciously hip, but not a bad place for orienting
newcomers to beat/Bohemian lifestyle and literature.

Born Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac in Lowell, MA on March 12; third
child of Gabrielle and Leo Kerouac, French-Canadian immigrants to
New England.

I suppose it's appropriate that Kerouac's timeline extends to 1997,
40 years after the publication of On the Road and 28 years after his
alcohol-soaked death. He lives on through his words. Indeed, Orpheus
Emerged emerged in 2002, so even this timeline ends all too soon.

"The story is nothing...while the unravelling is everything."
-- David Dempsey

So says David Dempsey in his 1958 review of Kerouac's Subterraneans.
The New York Times book reviews have been the most influential in
North America, probably since forever. Note that the paper's editorial
stance tends well to the right of center and you'll better appreciate
the restraint shown by the reviewers.

"DHARMA beat is a newszine about Kerouac's life and writing.
We publish information of interest about Kerouac events and happenings
around the world. Visit our links page and calender about Kerouac
events." -- Dharma Beat

Not very pretty, but its informative, utilitarian nature more than
compensates for what Dharma Beat lacks in ease of use.

Jack Kerouac and the "Beat Generation", a coast to coast trip down
the legendary highway [Route 66], in the footsteps of the beatniks.

Just as many associate Kerouac's On the Road with Route 66
(the highway is never mentioned or named in the book), this page purports
to be about Route 66, yet only mentions it in the introduction. No,
this page is about Kerouac and his fellow adventurers who blazed the
Bohemian trail through post-war America. Unflinching and glitterless
in its depiction of Kerouac et. al., it is shorter on content than
it appears, relying heavily on contextual links into the extensive
content of other pages, most notably Literary
Kicks. (Typical of a commercial website: offer a small amount
of content linked to the nets better resources...then hope surfers
surf through your shop on the way out, or at least remember your name
the next time they rubber-sole it into the mall.)